Design of FBG-based ultra-narrow asymmetric filter for transmission with 0.8 bit/s/Hz spectral efficiency without polarisation multiplexing

E.G. Turitsyna*, R. Bhamber, V. Mezentsev, A. Gillooly, J. Mitchell, S.K. Turitsyn

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Abstract

We propose a novel approach to ultra-narrow optical filtering based on a specially designed slightly asymmetric filter, which can be fabricated using fibre Bragg gratings. A feasibility of 8×40 Gbit/s DWDM RZ transmission with 0.8 bit/s/Hz spectral efficiency (without polarisation multiplexing) over 1280 km of SMF/DCF link without FEC has been confirmed by numerical modelling. © 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)202-208
Number of pages7
JournalOptical Fiber Technology
Volume11
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Apr 2005

Keywords

  • optical communications
  • spectral efficiency
  • ultra-narrow filtering

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